Over four thousand years of medicine, and the patients’ questions have not changed.

Will this hurt? Will I get better?

I speak to Egyptology societies, science festivals, schools and public events on ancient Egyptian medicine, mummification and the forensic examination of human remains. Talks are available in person or online, and I also contribute to documentaries, panels and media comment.

 

Upcoming

10 October 2026 · Chesterfield Egyptology Society

Details to follow.

 

Selected Past Events

2025

XI World Congress on Mummy Studies, Cusco, Peru · podium presentation, August

Hapy Egyptology Society, The Cooper Gallery · 7 June

2024

Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt · 12 October

Pint of Science Festival, Manchester · 15 May

Manchester Ancient Egypt Society · 13 May

Chesterfield Central Library · 30 March

2023

Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People, Cosmic Shambles Network · December

Tormead School · October

Ancient Egyptian Dream Charms and Sleep Medicine · 9 September

White Memorial Conservation Centre · 5 August

Cheltenham Science Festival · panellist, 8 June

Dream Palace, Athens

2020 to 2022

The Explorers Egyptology Club · four lectures on Tutankhamun, women’s health, disease and disability, and sleep and dream medicine

 

LECTURES

Tutankhamun and the royal mummies

• Tutankhamun: The Tomb That Changed the World

• Tutankhamun: 100 Years of Forensic Investigation

• The Pharaohs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Dynasties: Health and Mummification Techniques

Medicine, disease and the body

• The Human Brain in Ancient Egypt: A Medical and Historical Re-evaluation of Its Function and Importance

• Disease, Disability and Healthcare in Ancient Egypt

• Women in Ancient Egypt: Health, Medicine and Magic

• Proteomics: Identification and Diagnosis of Ancient Disease

• Sleep and Dream Medicine in Ancient Egypt

• Drugs and Festivals in Ancient Egypt

Death and mummification

• A Re-evaluation of Ancient Egyptian Mummification Techniques: Predynastic to the Roman Period

• Ancient Egypt’s Death Industry

Magic, myth and daily life

• Animals in Ancient Egypt: Medicine and Magic

• Cleopatra and the Serpent in Myth and Magic

• Deir el-Medina Workers’ Village

• Food in Ancient Egypt: Daily Life, Medicine, Magic and the Afterlife

Enquiries

For lecture bookings please use the contact form or email sofia@sofiaaziz.com